Milky Way Swallowed Dwarf Galaxy Nearly 11.8 Billion Years Ago

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence that the young Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy just two billion years after the Big Bang, revealing one of the earliest major mergers in the history of our Galaxy. The Milky Way today is a massive spiral galaxy home to hundreds of billions […] The post Milky Way Swallowed Dwarf Galaxy Nearly 11.8 Billion Years…

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